Food price hikes!!

Ilona

richardw wrote: »

Everyday value chopped toms have gone up from 31p to 35p.

Are more people doing fragmented shopping instead of one shop supermarket loyalty.

Yes, loyalty goes out the window when you are shopping on a budget. Cherry picking the best deals from all the stores, shops, and markets, yellow stickering, stockpiling when cheap, is the way to go.

If you have an Asian Food outlet near you try that for tomatoes, chick peas, and beans. Mine sometimes has a deal, a whole case of 12 tins, work out price per tin, and if it's cheap buy the case. Sometimes get tomatoes for 25p a tin.
Ilona

A._Badger

thor wrote: »

Isn't this what in a capalist world businesses are supposed to be doing?
Competing to offer the best value? Of course due to their deceit and underhand tactics no one believes their word anymore.
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The problem is that once a business achieves dominance in a market it can abuse its position, effectively immune from real competition.

Even if it has two or three challengers, they may only go through the motions of competing.

People sometimes respond by pointing out that the returns on investment of the major supermarkets are comparatively small, but.those returns are after the figures have been well and truly 'breathed on' by accountants.

We have allowed (actually, encouraged) a handful of supermarket chains to get too big. This has had a malign influence not only on what we pay for what we eat, but even the very food itself.

Mrs_Optimist

I detest Tesco so don't shop there but take my mum every couple of weeks for her to do her shop as she is a die-hard loyal customer. I am amazed that people shop there as I very often see cheaper offers in Sainsburys. I shop at Aldi's and then Sainsbury and/or Morrisons for certain branded goods which can't be bought in Aldi. I appreciate that I have a day off a week which permits me time to do this and some don't have that luxury but I cannot fathom why anyone would shop at Tesco as it is expensive. Our local Aldi always has a full carpark so I tend to do my shop at 8am when it is less busy. Tesco carpark however is less and less busy when I take my mum once a month. Sign of the times perhaps?

Edwardia

thor wrote: »

For the first time in a long time Tesco do have a boney-fide offer.
I went in today to buy an 8 pack of coco cola for for £1.87 - Thats around 23pence each.

I gave up Diet Coke and endured two weeks on on and off killer headaches because of the caffeine I never buy carbonated soft drinks at all now.

If I consumed 2 x 1.87 packs a week = 3.74 for 16 cans, over a year that works out at 194.48. OH says that averages my Diet Coke consumption at 2 cans a day or less and he says it was more like 4 cans so I should double it so 388.96 per year on coloured fizzy water with chemicals :eek: For me that's very nearly a month's food, drink, dog food, cleaning stuff and toiletries budget :eek:

Have to say prefer local Lidl to Aldi in next town. They chuck stuff at you in Aldi

lil.smartie

We used to be 'Tesco Land' here with a Tesco (and a small Lidls & Somerfield/Co-Op) here and another Tesco (with small aldi) in the nearest town. I have noticed prices going up there! Had a Morrisons open just before Christmas and have a Waitrose opening later this year so there is some hope
Tend to online shop, I like Ocado 75% of the time when they actually turn up on time! Sainsburys sent me some vouchers so will see how they do...

Kate

cabbage

OH and I really noticed the price increase in Tesco's this week. A lot of the smart price/own brand have increased considerably. A few years ago a loaf of own brand bread was about 19p and now its about 57p. Its not just Tesco's.

I shopped there last week because they accepted the £5 of a £40 spend at morrison vouchers printed in the sun.

this week I plan to use Aldi, home bargains, poundland and farm foods for most of our shop. Its time consuming but I'm determined to cut down on our food costs and don't like the idea of Tesco taking all my money.

I'm a coupon addict so will shop where I can get £5 off a shop. The only time when I want to shop at Tesco is when they are doing 10p off a litre of petrol and you can use 5 x 10p vouchers. Obviously I only buy what I use and stockpile if poss and then only buy the products Asda are offering cheaper (as they do) and get a price promise voucher plus by 10 p off a litre.

mttylad

Asda are just the same for price hikes, I only shop there and I notice all the time how the prices have been hikes, (while I cannot remember what it was) - something last weekend had gone up by 70p and it was a basic foodstuff.

soappie

I nearly passed out in Tesco today when I saw the price of a 4 pack of Princes' Tuna - £7.99!!!!!!!1

Nearly £2 per tin! But, maybe they'll be back at £4.00 for 4 tins in a few weeks as a "special offer"!

Back to Asda for me where they are only(!) £1 per tin (at the moment) ....even that's ridiculous compared with the price they used to be.

With potatoes and other veg rising about 25% in price recently (not to mention the rise in meat prices) I do wonder how we're all going to be able to afford a properly balanced diet in the next few months - we're certainly all going to be lacking vitamin D thanks to no sunshine!

lovingtescoforever

soappie wrote: »

I nearly passed out in Tesco today when I saw the price of a 4 pack of Princes' Tuna - £7.99!!!!!!!1

Nearly £2 per tin! But, maybe they'll be back at £4.00 for 4 tins in a few weeks as a "special offer"!

Back to Asda for me where they are only(!) £1 per tin (at the moment) ....even that's ridiculous compared with the price they used to be.

With potatoes and other veg rising about 25% in price recently (not to mention the rise in meat prices) I do wonder how we're all going to be able to afford a properly balanced diet in the next few months - we're certainly all going to be lacking vitamin D thanks to no sunshine!

actually cheaper in Sainsburys atm:eek: only £3.79. I know it's only 21p but every little helps

£7.99 is crazy though:mad:

Tesco Everyday Value Grated Cheddar (500g) is another one which has annoyed me. £3:mad::mad: used to be £2.13. Still is in Asda!

Edwardia

http://www.princes.co.uk/about-princes/sustainability/tuna-sustainability/

It costs more money to catch wild fish with rod and line instead of grabbing them in bulk in a net. It's done to stop dolphins and turtles from being killed or injured. It costs more money, to set up monitoring systems to make sure the fishermen comply. Companies also have to share the cost of the sustainability program to manage the fisheries and ensure that too many tuna aren't taken, therefore ensuring thy remain a food source.

Ultimately, the whole way our food is produced is crazy. It costs more to buy carrrots untreated with pesticides. It's cheaper to buy packets of Quavers that really have no nutritional value at all, than any kind of carrots.

MRSA is now in the non-organic milk supply in the UK and in pigs in Europe. Anyone who lived through the BSE years in the UK still can't donate blood in the USA.

Any non-organic meat, poultry, eggs, cheese and milk you buy in the entire EU may be from animals fed on genetically modified feed or crops and this doesn't have to be labelled.

So buying tinned wild fish that has been caught thousands of miles away in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way and which provides people in the developing world with a steady income to support their families.. why would that be cheap ?